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Woman's hand holding US dollars
December 12, 2016December 10, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

What Can Be Worse Than Homelessness? 

Talking About Giving Deciding how to contribute to charity has become really complicated.  I used to just put a dollar or two into the cups of panhandlers in winter, buskers in summer, and the Salvation Army bell-ringers at Christmas-time. Then I joined a church whose members tithed, so I learned to give ten percent of […]

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Poppies in a field
November 10, 2016November 11, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

Multicultural Remembrance

The day after the US election I had a terrible hangover and I hadn’t even been drinking. I had waited and waited for something, anything, to happen for a different outcome, but in the end all I got was a night with too little sleep. So it was with a fuzzy head and a bad […]

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Edmonton Transit System Bus
October 24, 2016November 11, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

To See Us All Just Getting Along, Ride the Bus

We can all get along. I know because I’ve seen us do it. On Saturday I took the bus downtown, as I do on most weekends. It’s about a thirty-minute ride and in that time I saw people of various ages, ethnicities, and abilities helping each other out. At a guess, I’d say we ranged […]

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